The Chinese attack came extremely suddenly and violently. Almost in an instant, countless criss-crossing ballistic tracers filled the entire sky. I was stunned by this breathtakingly brilliant night scene. So much so that I forgot that this was on the battlefield, not at the Imperial Palace Plaza in Tokyo - excerpted from "The Diary of Totaro"
Tōtaro, the octogenarian who knelt in front of the Anti-Japanese Martyrs Monument and shed tears of repentance seventy years later, is still a young man in his prime, and a Japanese soldier who has been thoroughly brainwashed by militarism. At this moment, Tōtaro is with him. Together with his comrades, they lay in the trenches outside the artillery position and stood ready.
The news of the loss of the headquarters has been confirmed. All personnel of the artillery brigade directly under the Tachibana Regiment have been awakened and mobilized. Captain Kameda Jiro organized the remaining two hundred personnel of the artillery brigade into three echelons. , one echelon is responsible for guarding the outer defense line, another echelon is responsible for guarding the core position, and the remaining echelon serves as a reserve team.
Totaro and his entire team were unfortunately included in the first echelon.
Because there were not enough guns, the quartermaster only gave Totaro five bullets. As for the rifle, he could only get the gun from his fallen comrades when his comrades died in battle. In this way, Totaro followed with only five bullets in his hand. More than thirty comrades from the entire squad went out to the outer trenches.
Totaro poked his head out from the trench and looked out. Everything was dark.
Only when the searchlight above the watchtower sweeps over can we see clearly for a short time.
There were faint lights shining in the direction of Wuxi City in the distance. Needless to say, the main force of the regiment stationed in the city must have learned that the headquarters was under attack and rushed out of the city to come for reinforcements.
Unfortunately, the timing is a bit late.
Inexplicably, the hair on Totaro's body suddenly stood up.
The next moment, the sentry on the watchtower seemed to have noticed something and hurriedly turned the searchlight. However, just as the searchlight turned, there was a sudden gunshot in the night sky, and the searchlight was extinguished. However, before it was extinguished, the light of the searchlight was still on. It briefly illuminates the eleven o'clock direction ahead.
At eleven o'clock, Totaro saw a dark crowd rushing towards him.
"Chinese people, Chinese people, Chinese people, Chinese people are coming, Chinese people are coming..."
The sentry screamed in an instant, and then there was another gunshot. The sentry's scream suddenly stopped, and then the whole person fell down from the watchtower, and fell to the ground like a piece of wood. There was a muffled bang, and Toshiro looked at this scene in a daze. It was the first time he felt the cruelty of the battlefield, and the first time he felt death was so close to him.
"Kill kaigai, kill kaigai, kill kaigai..." The squad leader drew out his saber and howled at the top of his lungs.
Toshiro turned around blankly, and saw his comrades with guns in their hands standing up from the trenches, continuously pulling the bolts of their guns and shooting forward. The sound of gunfire was heard all of a sudden, and the hot bullets were flying at high speeds. A stream of dazzling light was pulled out in the dark night, and then disappeared again.
The next moment, the Chinese in front also opened fire.
At least ten or more machine guns fired violently at the same time. The criss-crossing ballistics and brilliant ballistic tracers filled the entire night sky in an instant. Totaro and his comrades in the entire team were all stunned. They had never seen this before. With such ferocious firepower, it seemed as if all the machine guns in the world were concentrated here and now.
The Japanese army's offensive routine was extremely strict, even rigid.
First the artillery attack, then the infantry attack, and the number of troops invested each time would never exceed a small squad.
When an infantry team attacks, its supporting firepower usually only consists of three light machine guns plus two grenade launchers, and at most one Type 92 heavy machine gun for long-range fire suppression.
Therefore, Totaro was dumbfounded because the Chinese firepower was so brutal!
The scorching bullets poured over like a violent storm, scattering smoke and dust in the Japanese outer positions.
Totaro curled up in the trench, not even daring to raise his head. One of his comrades only showed his head for a moment, and was immediately beaten to a bloody sieve by the dense rain of bullets. The comrades stood upright. He fell down, right in front of Totaro. Using the tracer of the ballistics, Totaro could even see the ferocious expressions on his comrade's faces.
The violent firepower lasted for almost half a minute, followed by a hail of grenades.
Through the tracer of the ballistics, Totaro could clearly see rows of grenades being thrown over, and then falling on their position like hail.
What followed was a series of violent explosions.
At this moment, the ground is moving, the mountains are shaking, and the sky is trembling.
Totaro was also affected by the air wave generated by the explosion of a grenade and was knocked unconscious, but he did not expect that he escaped by accident.
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The offensive of the temporary 79th Division can only be described with one idiom, that is, plowing the court and sweeping holes!
It was really a plow to sweep holes. Facing the insanely violent firepower of the temporary 79th Division, the Japanese artillerymen with only a few dozen 38-piece guns had no power to parry.
As a time traveler, no one knows the advantages and disadvantages of the Japanese army better than Xu Rui. The advantages of the Japanese army are strict discipline and tenacious fighting will. The grassroots officers have received good military training and have strong tactical execution capabilities. But at the same time, The Japanese army also has a very obvious shortcoming, that is, a serious lack of automatic firepower.
The Japanese army is an island country and has always pursued naval doctrine.
Therefore, when it comes to the Army, the Japanese government will save what it can.
While the Army of the European and American powers such as Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom have generally installed automatic rifles, the Japanese Army still insists on equipping Type 38 rifles that require pulling the bolt to fire a shot. This greatly limits the basic units of the Japanese army. The Japanese army suffered a great loss when faced with enemy troops equipped with a large amount of automatic firepower.
Yang Dashu led twenty machine gunners, slinging the machine gun on his chest and charging with a roar while firing fiercely.
It has to be said that the remnants of the temporary 79th Division are really rich now. The supply of bullets is wide open, so they can be made vigorously!
In the face of the brutal machine gun firepower of the machine gun team, the Japanese on the periphery of the artillery position could not even raise their heads, let alone fire back.
In half a minute, less than half a minute, the machine gun team was approaching within thirty meters.
The cost was that one remnant soldier was seriously injured and two others were slightly injured, which is almost negligible.
Immediately afterwards, the grenade team followed up and threw 300 grenades in less than ten seconds. A total of 300 melon grenades exploded in an area of less than 300 square meters. The lethality can be imagined. In the blink of an eye, a ten-meter-wide gap was opened in the seemingly complete ring defenses of the Japanese.
Before the smoke cleared, Xu Rui was the first to rush into the gap with a box in his left hand and a 38-style bayonet in his right hand.
Xu Rui jumped across the three-meter-wide trench, fired two shots in the air, and killed two little Japanese who tried to resist in the trench. Then he wiped the neck of a Japanese second lieutenant who rushed over with his backhand knife. The Japanese second lieutenant didn't even have time to hum before he fell headlong into the trench.
Then, Xu Rui turned around and smiled ferociously at the more than a hundred remnant soldiers who were following behind him, and shouted: "Brothers, listen to me, kill them all, leaving no one behind!"
"Kill them all, leaving no one behind!"
"Kill them all, leaving no one behind!"
"Kill them all, leaving no one behind!"
More than a hundred remnant soldiers roared like a tsunami in an instant, and then each one with a fierce look in his eyes, bayonets in hand, followed Xu Rui and flooded into the Japanese artillery position.
Xu Rui's bravery and skill in fighting greatly boosted the morale and fighting spirit of the remaining soldiers of the temporary 79th Division.
As the saying goes, if the general is not afraid of death, then the soldiers will not hesitate to die. If the general of an army is not afraid of death, then this army will definitely become an elite division. And if the general of this army is not afraid of death and is brave and good at fighting, then this army will be an elite division. An army must be a roaring army of tigers and wolves!
Due to Xu Rui's appearance, the remnants of the temporary 79th Division underwent radical changes.
The temporary 79th division at this time may not be considered a tiger or wolf division, but it is definitely an elite division!
"Kill them all, leaving no one behind!"
"Kill them all, leaving no one behind!"
"Kill them all, leaving no one behind!"
More than a hundred remnant soldiers howled and rushed into the Japanese artillery position like tigers descending from the mountain.
"Kill!" a remnant soldier shouted, and stabbed a Japanese soldier in the abdomen with a bayonet.
"Die!" A remnant soldier roared up to the sky. He swung his 38-piece cap and hit it hard. In an instant, he smashed the helmet of the Japanese soldier in front of him. Under the helmet, the Japanese soldier's helmet was smashed. The skull was shattered in an instant, and bright red blood and white brains dripped down instantly.
"Uh-huh..." Because he was at a disadvantage in terms of strength, a remnant soldier was thrown to the ground by a Japanese soldier and a hungry tiger. Then he was stabbed through the chest with a bayonet by a Japanese soldier.
But before dying, the remnant soldier roared, used all his strength, opened his mouth and bit the devil's neck viciously. This mouth bite directly broke the devil's common carotid artery. The devil screamed, and his eyes were red. Tang's blood shot out from the wound like a sharp arrow, and then his whole body collapsed to the ground.
Xu Rui, who was rushing at the front, was like a tiger rushing into a flock of sheep, with no single general under his command!
"Whoosh." Xu Rui slid past a Japanese major with a sliding step. The Japanese's saber missed the target, and when he was about to turn around and stab back, the bone-eroding coldness spread from his throat, and in an instant he was dead. It spread throughout the body, and the next moment, the Japanese Major felt that his entire body was out of control. He lowered his head and looked down with some difficulty. The Japanese Second Lieutenant only saw streams of blood arrows shooting out from his throat. .
Xu Rui stabbed open the Japs Major's neck with a backhand bayonet. He looked around and saw that there was no longer a living Japs in front of him. He looked up again and saw more than ten artillery pieces spread out in a row under the night sky, with their barrels pointed straight into the night sky. .